SAMPLE: Testing to See if a Drive is a CD-ROM

 Last reviewed: February 15, 1996
Article ID: Q103219
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows version 3.1

ISCDROM: Demonstrates Testing if Drive is CD-ROM

ISCDROM is an assembly code fragment which demonstrates how to determine if a drive is a CD-ROM drive.

ISCDROM is a companion source code fragment to the technical article, "CD-ROM Design and Optimization." Please reference this article for more information.

Download ISCDROM.EXE, a self-extracting file, from the Microsoft Software Library (MSL) on the following services:

  • Microsoft Download Service (MSDL) 

          Dial (206) 936-6735 to connect to MSDL
      Download ISCDROM.EXE (size: 17942 bytes)
  • Internet (anonymous FTP) 

          ftp ftp.microsoft.com
      Change to the \SOFTLIB\MSLFILES directory
      Get ISCDROM.EXE (size: 17942 bytes)

Additional reference words: 3.10 softlib ISCDROM.EXE
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Last reviewed: February 15, 1996
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